January 2011
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Is this a social media revolution, or a revolution...
Almost a week has passed since Margaux Salcedo first wrote about the “Big Bad Blogger.”  As with many things that I don’t usually care for - or if work gets in the way of things that I feel compelled to write about - here’s my take on the issue that is, perhaps, hopefully forgotten.  (Should this Tumblog bring it back to life, well… I don’t really know.) Over...
Jan 27th
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bbb
* - okay, blame the big bad blogger for this one.  sing to the tune of d’bodies. may bbb ba kayo?  hihihi… popsie, ah, ahh popsie, ah, ahh… ang tipo kong guy, sa blog kong tunay sarap mag-review, bigay na bigay banayad humagod ang kanyang kamay sa kanyang write-up, wala pang aray mula sa noo hanggang sa paa sa kanyang blog ay mai-in-love ka sa sobrang usap, tumirik ang aking...
Jan 23rd
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ListenPron lyrics time
Jan 20th
Ampatuan lawyers say victims could have hurt... →
It is only here where one can raise to the courts the possibility of 57 people bludgeoning themselves to death/expire in synchronized epileptic seizure/be the victims of a rampaging necrophiliac in the middle of nowhere, and not be cited for contempt.
Jan 20th
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“In a country where regionalism is the most overwrought premise for the seeming...”
–  Tears of the Soil, some insights from @ellobofilipino and @iwriteasiwrite
Jan 18th
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ellobofilipino: iwriteasiwrite: ellobofilipino: My dear friend, I felt the same when floods hit my city back in January 2009. I guess myopic vision keeps some people in the Capital from seeing and feeling for the rest of the country. Sadly, of that there is no doubt. I still remember the displaced persons photo-op fiasco of last year; where graciously Manileno society folk went down to...
Jan 17th
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“When 1.3 million people are displaced from their homes, P1.6 billion worth of...”
– “Where’s the sympathy?” yesterday’s column for the Philippine Star
Jan 17th
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Day 09. A(n OPM) song that you can dance to
“Sumusunod sa galaw,” Jaboom * - good freaking lord.
Jan 16th
Day 08. A(n OPM) song that you know all the words...
“Kahit Kailan,” South Border
Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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Sometimes I think it’s our inability as a people to come into grips with our poverty.  It’s normal, so common, so ubiquitous and present in our daily lives.  It’s practically invisible.  There’s no escaping the barong-barong, the street-child selling sampaguita, the blind busker in the streets, the old woman with her hand outstretched to beg.  It’s there, it’s...
Jan 13th
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helgaholic: “The condemned was hung upside down and then sawed apart down the middle, starting at the groin. Since the condemned was hanging upside-down, the brain received a continuous blood supply in spite of the severe bleeding. The condemned would remain completely conscious until the saw severed the major blood vessels of the abdomen, and sometimes even longer.” — Sawing, a method of...
Jan 12th
“Xoginis doing xoga on xachts in xemen.”
– This is why I hate “x” is the new “y” pronouncements.
Jan 12th
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Day 07. A(n OPM) song that reminds you of a...
“Christmas In Our Hearts,” Jose Mari Chan
Jan 11th
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Day 06. A(n OPM) song that reminds you of...
“Doon Lang,” Noynoy Zuniga
Jan 10th
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Day 5. A(n OPM) song that reminds you of someone
“Ikaw,” Sharon Cuneta ba-dum-tsssh
Jan 9th
“For an administration that vowed, and is bent on, eliminating corruption and...”
– “Polar Opposition,” this week’s column
Jan 9th
Reins of Reasonable Terror →
Jan 9th
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Day 4. A(n OPM) song that makes you sad.
“I’ll Never Go,” Erik Santos * - more of the movie, not the singer.
Jan 9th
“This week I was arrested, proving that for those who terrorize the United...”
– Bill Hader as Julian Assange, Saturday Night Live
Jan 8th
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Day 3. A(n OPM) song that makes you happy
“Beep Beep,” Juan Dela Cruz Band
Jan 8th
Jan 8th
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Day 2. Your least favorite (OPM) song
“Jejecall,” Blanktape
Jan 8th
maria ozawa, 1/8/2009
* - translated and interpreted using google translate.  may be incorrect.  link is nsfw. I’m 23 It’s my birthday, thanks!  I’m now 23 years old. Follow me and please keep it clean, everyone, because I want to be on my own right now.  I’m not kidding about my plans to change my life, okay? I’m just having a little bit more leeway than others. Today we’re...
Jan 7th
The Shoemaker and the Ceiling Elves →
Jan 7th
an exercise in pop poetry
I’m too sexy for my shirt                  for my shirt       so sexy          it hurts I’m too sexy for Milan                  for Milan                       New York, and Japan. and I’m too sexy for your party.      too sexy for your party. No way I’m disco dancing. I’M A MODEL.  You know what I mean                    When I do my little turn on the catwalk....
Jan 6th
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Jan 6th
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Jan 6th
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Jan 6th
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Day 01. Your Favorite (OPM) Song
“Mahal Pa Rin Kita,” Rockstar
Jan 6th
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“Imma start one of these 30-day challenges but answer everything in OPM.”
Jan 6th
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“[The Philippines] is deluged with poet-simpletons - triflers in verse, poets...”
–  Jose Garcia Villa
Jan 5th
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Jan 5th
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"‘Fearless’ traffic man rewarded," INQUIRER.net,... →
That’s nice and all… but the mayor of the biggest city in the Philippines did beat the red light.
Jan 5th
"Kiliti" by D'Bodies. Translated
Do you have a ticklish spot (hihihihi) Popsie, ahh ahh Popsie, ahh ahh Popsie, ahh ahh My kind of guy who’ll be in my house Massages so sweetly, and gives it all out His hands give me a gentle caress And I feel no pain when he starts to press From my forehead, all the way to my feet Oh his massage, you’ll be loving it And it’s so delicious, I can’t help but roll back my...
Jan 3rd
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